The Suicide rate of Men is 3.53 times higher than that of their female counterparts. There is a Gender Paradox in suicide. Although women have a higher rate of suicidal thoughts, men commit suicide more frequently. Men also have the higher suicide completion rate since they use more lethal means of suicide. 

Many believe this is because they don't care who has to clean up the mess. While women, empathize and attempt overdoses or hangings. Why do we think that the statistics of men are so much higher? 

Well that's actually fairly simple. From my understanding, it's because they're expected to: "Tough it out" they don't get the same love and acceptance that women do when they express their mental health. 

They are under a lot more stress to provide. Providing a house, security, food, comfort, money, stabilization. Too much is expected of them and for what? A pat on the back and an 'attaboy'? Society believes that men should be providers, but what about women? Can't they help? Or are they supposed to expect everything to be taken care of? 

This is why there are so many problems in the world with suicide. People pick and choose who they want to listen to about their mental health. And for what? The satisfaction of helping one person? What about all the teenage boys and men? What do they get? Darkness and seclusion? No, I won't stand for it. 

Just because you're male DOES NOT mean that you can suffer alone, I don't care. Society needs to change and understand that not everyone is perfect, and the pedestals they put the men and young boys on in this day and age is too much. 

They're human, they should be able to express what they're feeling. Not to be shut down with: 

"You're a man, you shouldn't cry" 

"Feelings are for women, not men" 

Need i say more? So how can we be a society if we can't help the ones in need? What's the point of saying that you want to help everyone, when the ones who need it most often don't get the help they need? There isn't one. Sure you help the few, but the many. The many is left behind in the dust, to walk to path alone. No one to guide them, no one to help them along. So? Why not listen to everyone? Let their voices be heard, they need it. 

Let them have the opportunity.